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The Jonas Cowdry House is a historic house at 61 Prospect Street in
Wakefield, Massachusetts Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, incorporated in 1812 and located about north-northwest of Downtown Boston. Wakefield's population was 27,090 at the 2020 census. Wakefield offers ...
. Built , the Federal style
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is three
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s wide and four deep, a significant local variant to conventional Federal style architecture. The house was listed on the
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in 1989.


Description and history

The Jonas Cowdry House is located on the north side of Prospect Street, just west of Nichols Street, in what is now a residential area of northwestern Wakefield. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide and four deep, with a side-gable roof. The brick chimney rises at the ridge line in the center, with the main entrance located in the leftmost bay. The entrance is flanked by sidelight windows, and topped by a Federal style entablature. The Cowdry family was one of the first to settle the area in the 17th century, which was originally part of
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. The hill north of what is now Prospect Street became known as "Cowdry's Hill". Two of William Cowdry's descendants built houses on Prospect Street about 1833. This one was built by Jonas, while another similar was built 98 Prospect by Aaron. The area remained in Cowdry family hands until about 1900. This house is one of the finest surviving examples of 3/4 architecture in the town. A house built by Cowdry's father, Nathaniel, in Wakefield is also on the National Register of Historic Places.


See also

* Nathaniel Cowdry House, 71 Prospect Street *
National Register of Historic Places listings in Wakefield, Massachusetts This is a list of properties and historic districts in Wakefield, Massachusetts, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and long ...
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowdry, Jonas, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wakefield, Massachusetts Federal architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1833